KwaZulu-Natal accounted for 41% of all unauthorised expenditure in the 2011/12 financial year, followed by Gauteng with 36%.
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Public single-medium African language schools have declined since 2008, from 7.2% of all single-medium schools to 4.6% in 2012.
A combined total of 153 392 school-aged children between 6 and 18 left the Eastern Cape, the Free State, Limpopo, and the North West between 2001 and 2007, but only 90 998 moved into those provinces.
Speaking after his budget speech, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan reminded us that the private sector was responsible for generating 70% of gross domestic product (GDP).
The South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR) recently published a "twelve-point plan for a better South Africa". We were accused of casting "pearls before swine" and told that "the establishment is dead set against each and every point of this pie-in-the-sky plan". Maybe. But it is not unusual for governments to adopt plans they once dismissed.
If South African schoolchildren were elephants, there would be an international outcry against the culling in the schooling system.
The proportion of people who believe that the Government is performing well dropped by 37%, from 74% in 2002 to 54% in 2012.
Adults choose the Daily Sun, the Sunday Times, SABC 1, and Ukhozi FM as firm favourites among daily and weekly newspapers, television stations, and radio stations.
The majority of adult South Africans use the Internet to search for information while the number of those using it for chatting has grown the fastest.
Less than a fifth of households would have access to the Internet if there was no access through mobile phones. As it is, more than a third of households have access to the Internet.
Some 89% of South African homes have access to mobile phones compared to only 14% that have access to landline telephones.
The number of households residing in shacks in the Western Cape grew by 82% over a fifteen-year period, the highest growth rate out of all the provinces.